On 09/02/21 00:00, [email protected] wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 14:05:04 +0100
Tom Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
I sympathize with the devs who want to
just improve the product that is but its
extremely frustrating to have to hunt for
basics. Let's not forget that a user may
well be a novice to both musicware AND Linux.
I don't think I fully agree. In general there is a misconception that
one should be able to 'make music' quick and easy. It's simply not the
case. Be it with a computer or not.
Example: a few years ago I stared playing (more seriously) bass after
having played other instruments (even with pretty advanced training),
but I was a beginner again.
If you want to start playing bass, well... you need to have a bass i.e.
buy/borrow/find one: so that implies some research based on your budget,
what kind of instrument you're after etc.
I went to a shop and got a relatively cheap one, but at least I could
try it 'live'. Then you need an amp, or some form of amplification:
again you need to do some research on what to use (first days I just
plugged it in an old guitar amp I had)
So now you are able to plug your bass into 'something' and make sound
with it, that of course doesn't make you a bass player. But aside the
learning/practice part, the instrument and set-up itself aren't done. As
a cheap bass the set-up was completely wrong, symptom being that the low
E and E string were way too loud and 'boomy' compared to the D and G: a
relatively easy fix because this was a P-bass clone and had the two
pickups, which meant fiddling with the screws to level height so that
the volume would be more constant.
Still.. tuning (while never perfect on stringed instruments), had its
problems. Having played electric guitar I did have some experience with
set-up, but doing it on a bass implied some further research, then
getting out a hex key and a screwdriver.
Finally I had a decently set-up, albeit cheap, bass. Now came the hard
part: learning to actually play the damn thing :-)
I told this personal story, and I'm sure many musicians here have
similar storied, to say that music making (like any artistic craft),
take effort and one should be distrust marketing slogans about
(especially software) like 'start making your tunes in minutes!' etc.
So... As Ted's guide illustrates the process isn't that complicated. At
the core you need:
- Rosegarden, jack, some alsa-midi capable fluidsynth player and a soundfont
[ think of this as bass, jack, amplifier in the example above, you can
think of the soundfont as the amplifier type/brand... well kinda]
- start jack
- start fluidsynth player and load soundfont
- connect rosegarden general midi output to fluidsynth player (via alsa
midi)
- connect fluidsynth player to system playback
- Start making yuor masterpiece
Actually, in this setting you could theoretically skip jack audio. And,
really, I think jack audio is there only to either use synth plugins
(mostly dead due to DSSI these days), or audio recording.
My other two cents.
Lorenzo.
Again, I wanna stress that I'm trying to
throw pebbles but leaving earth orbit should
kinda come before nuclear sails or mars
landings. Is it THAT difficult to hardwire
SOME minimal sound ability if only to show
that the right software is being tried?
Other apps can do it, at least at some
rudimentary level at first.
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